Pakistan and New Zealand are fixed to lock horns with each other in the last quarter of 2014. The two legendary teams of world cricket would be meeting up at UAE come December for a T20 match. The article here highlights on the Pakistan V New Zealand T20 series 2014.
Interestingly, the Pakistan V New Zealand 2014 T20 series would involve just a single T20 match. The match is fixed for December 8, 2014 and would start from 16:00 GMT. It’s the Dubai International Cricket Stadium that would be hosting the T20 match for both the teams.
The Pakistan T20 squad is yet to decide on its captain and Moin Khan is the coach for the team. In terms of ranking, Pakistan holds a respectable 3rd stature in the ICC T20 ranking. When it comes to New Zealand, Brendon McCullum is the captain for T20. Mike Hesson is the team coach. The Kiwis hold a decent 6th status in the ICC T20 ranking but is trailing behind while compared to Pakistan.
Albeit, the Kiwis are behind in T20 ranking compared to Pakistan yet the huge T20 experience gathered by the New Zealand players will of course favor McCullum’s team. The Kiwi captain himself is one of the most successful T20 players. The other important players from New Zealand are Corey Anderson, Martin Guptill, Hamish Rutherford, Trent Boult etc.
The Pakistan squad though hasn’t got much opportunity to hone up the skills at IPL yet the Pak players have participated in other rising T20 leagues around. Moreover, the team will be benefitted from a great band of supporters as the match would be hosted at Dubai- a great deal of Pakistanis settle at the Middle East. In conclusion, it could be said that both the teams are super powerful and hence would assure a neck-to-neck T20 fight.